Insert-printing press



H. A. W. WOOD.

I NSERT PRINTING P-RESS.

APPLICATION FILED )AN.31.1919.

1,392,469. Patented 00. 4, 1921.

"UNITED STATES HENRY A. WISE WOOD, OF NEW YORK,

PATENT OFFICE.

N. Y., .ASS IGNOR TO WOOD NEWSPAPER MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF VIRGINTA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Original application filed September7, 1910, Serial No. 580,870. Patent No. 1,232,639, dated July 10, 1917. Divided and application filed June 29, 1917, Serial No. 177,652. Divided and this application filed January 31, 1919. Serial No. 274,217.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, HENRY A. Wrsn WOOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Insert-Printing Press, of which the following is a specification.

This is a division of my application for patent, Serial No. 177,652 filed June 29, 1917, which inpturnris a division of my Patent No. 1,232,639 granted July 10, 1917, on a machine for makin magazines and-the like, filed September, 7, 1910, Serial No. 580,870.

This invention relates to the art of printing books, magazines, and newspapers which are made up of several, signatures varying in character of, paper, and number ofpages, to ether with inserts of one or more leaves.

. heprincipal objects of this invention are to provide an organized mechanism for the purpose of printing the inserts in colors; to provide a practicable and eflicient form of printing press for making the inserts and to provide for great flexibility in the order and arrangement of the products of several presses, so that signatures can be introduced into the magazine in any desired order to save space, and afurther object is to reduce labor and expense. The invention also involves several improvements in combinations of parts and details of construction, particularly in the insert press as will ap ear hereinafter.

eference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in whichigure 1 is a diagrammatic side view of a machine constructed inaccordance with this invention for printing and feeding an insertand associating it with the sheets, and

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the folding and connected mechanism shown in Fig. 1 but somewhat modified.

In the drawings a machine is shown for printing the inserts in which they can be printed in a plurality of colors on one side of the web. It will be understood of course that by a similar arrangement color printing on both sides can be done. The insert web Wisdrawn from a reel 30 over web rolls 31, over a large impression cylinder 29 or a plurality of small impression cylinders 21, 41 of an inser press G a e ire p inted y applies to all but two-page si are transferred to the drum the several plate cylinders 20, 40 in a well known way, slit at D, cross-associated by the turning bars 51, and the several webs w, 'w 10 and led to cutting devices 32 and finally associated on a gathering device R with the product of the main high speed press A cut up by cutting'devices F. If it is desired to print on both sidesof the insert web w it is led through the insert press as shown in dotted lines at the right of Fig. 1. In this case the plate cylinder 40 is movable so as to contact with either of two impression cylinders 41 or 42. Two ink fountains 43 and 44 are'shown for two colors of ink. vWhen the plate cylinder is shifted the inking mechanism 45 can be shifted also as 'shown in dotted lines.

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Thesheets are nipped by the drop rolls and advanced by the tapes 35 which carry them to a cylinder 37. This cylinder has pin-s or grippers 38 for receiving the sheets and carrying them around so as to transfer them to a cylinder 39 which folds and transfers them to the gathering drum R. This atures which from the cylinder 37 by a cylinder 34.

v If tissue t is desired with the inserts it is drawn from a roll g cut into sheets on a cylinder fed between tapes 9 and pasted with a line of paste. This is done by a paste blade 9* which moves to and from a paste roll 9 The sheets are carried by the tapes to the cylinder 39 where they meet the signatures as indicated.

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collecting devices it will furnish sixteen, eight, four, two or one slgnatures, having respectively four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two or sixty-four pages. In the first case there will be no collection, in the second one, and in the other cases three. When the cylinder is run with a less number of plates in width, and a less number of collecting devices, the number of signatures and pages will be restrictedin proportion. Running at one-half the speed of the main press this press will furnish the same number of signatures of one-half the number of pages and one-half the number of signatures of the same number of pages as for. full speed, and corresponding reductions will be made, when running at one-quarter ofthe speed of the main press, and at an eighth, sixteenth, or less. 'When running one-thirty second the speed of the main press it will furnish one two-page signature. It will be seen that by this construction, one is enabled to supply to a fast running press sheets, such as frontispieces or inserts, which are being simultaneously printed but at a very much lower rate of speed. To take one of the examples given above, supposing the press G is two pages wide and eight in circumference; that is, having sixteen plateson the cylinder all duplicates, it will deliver sixteen products at each revolution. These products may be fed to the gathering drum R with the product of another press which is running sixteen times as fast, and will supply the gathering mechanism with a product for each product of the other press. That is, in this case if the press A is running sixteen times as fastas this press G, one product of each will be fed to the gathering drum R at the same time. In this way the presses for the ordinary work can :be speeded up as much as necessary, and yet the presses for the color work and other particular parts can be run at such a low speed that the product can be made with a very high degree of excellence. With the feeding devices shown it is obvious that the circumferential products of the press G will follow each other, as is usual with a press which does not collect, by means of this distributing mechanism. All the lateral prodnets of the press as well are turned into the same stream so that theentire product will be delivered in a series, one after the other, :to the large gathering drum, a single product 'for each turn, thus both the lateral and circumferential products of the press are distributed in sequence. In this way it will require sixteen turns of the drum in order to exhaustthe products made by one turn of the press. At the same time, the drum is collecting the products-of sixteen revolutions of thepress A turning outordinary work; It will be understood of course that fif desired-the collating device can 11. i

ent ways to be printed on opposite sides;

ranged so that the product of this press will be run out in two streams instead of one, in which case this press must run at one-eighth ofthe speed of the other press A, if that turns out one product per revolution. Supposing this to be applied to a newspaper press of the present style, which is turning out a Sunday paper at the rate of 241,000 an hour, and which prints two products to a revolution, the addition of this press to the newspaper press. would result in supplying a colored insert for every paper, and yet the speed would be only oneeighth of that of the news'press or one-' sixteenth if applied to a press of another type turning out only one produce for each revolution. It is obvious also that the width of this machine can be increased within the scope of this invention so as to produce five products in width or any other practical number and that the speed will then be reduced proportionately. Similar results can be obtained with the other insert presses or feeders shown in Fig. 1. A

While I have illustrated and described several preferred modifications of the in vention and of different parts thereof, I am aware that many other modificationscan be made even in those' parts which have been illustrated in several forms, and that as far as most of the features of the invention are concerned, they do not depend uponthedetails of construction Therefore I do not I wish to be limited to any particular type of the various machines, or elements of the plant or mechanism described or to the other details of construction shown, except aseX pressed in the claims, but what Ido claim 1s':-

1. In a machine of the character de- 105.

narrow webs into sheets, means for receiving one sheet from each of saidnarrow webs, the insert press comprising a plate cylinder, an impresslon cylinder on each side thereof at a a greater distance apart than the length of the diameter of said'cylinder, two inking fountains, and an inking device adapted to cooperate with either of said fountains and v with said plate cylinder, whereby the web may be led through the same in two differ- 2. In a machine of the character described, the combination of an insertpr'ess constructed and adapted to produce a plurality of duplicate products at each revolution, means for slitting the web from said insert press to form a plurality of narrow webs, means for cross-associating said narrow webs, means for cutting up each'of said narrow webs into sheets, the insert press comprisinga series of plate cylinders, one of said plate cylinders being movable into two positions, an impression cylinder on each side thereof at a greater distance apart than the length of the diameter of said cylinder, two inking fountains, and an inking device adapted to cooperate witheither of said fountains and with said plate cylinder, whereby the web may be led through the same in two different ways to be printed on opposite sides.

3. In a printing press, the combination with a series of plate cylinders comprising a plate cylinder movable into two positions, and two impression cylinders for the last named plate cylinder, each adapted to contact therewith when it is in one ofits extreme positions, of two ink fountains, and an inking device adapted to cooperate with either of the fountains and deliver ink to the said last named plate cylinder in each of its positions.

4. In a printing press, the combination of a plate cylinder movable into two positions, two impression cylinders, each adapted to contact therewith when itis in one of its extreme positions, two ink fountains, and an inking device adapted tocooperate with either of the fountains and deliver ink to said plate cylinder in each of its positions.

5. In a printing press, the combination of a plate cylinder movable into two positions, two impression cylinders, each adapted to contact therewith when the plate cylinder is in one of its extreme positions, two ink fountains, an inking device adapted to cooperate with either of the fountains and deliver ink to said plate cylinder in each of its positions, and means for guiding a web between the said plate cylinder and either one of the impression cylinders, whereby the Web may be printed upon either side and different Webs may be printed on in different colors on opposite sides.

6. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a cylinder having means thereon for receiving a plurality of sheets around it, a plurality of means for delivering to it, a folding cylinder for receiving signatures therefrom and folding them, a gathering device, and means for transferring the signatures to the gathering device.

7. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a printing press or deck, a gathering device, and means for feeding the products of said press or deck to the gathering device, of an insert press constructed and adapted to produce a plurality of duplicate products at each revolution, means for cutting up the several insert webs into sheets, and means for transferring. said sheets from a plurality of insert webs one at a time to the gathering device comprising a gripping cylinder.

8. In a machine of the character described, the combination with a gathering device, of a low speed insert press provided with means for printing on either side of an insert web, means for slitting the insert web, means for cutting'up each strand of the slit web to form a plurality ofinserts, a high speed press arranged to run as many times as fast as the insert press, as the insert press prints duplicate products per revolution, and means for delivering a single product of each press to the gathering device in the I same length of time.

9. In a machine of the character described, the combination of two impression cylinders spaced apart, a plate cylinder movable into contact with either one of them to cooperate therewith, and an inking device adapted to deliver ink to said plate cylinder in each of its extreme positions.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature.

HENRY A. WISE WOOD. 

